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<blockquote data-quote="michaeldavid" data-source="post: 404146" data-attributes="member: 57211"><p>Hi Sam,</p><p></p><p>I'm unclear about what you mean by 'impractical'. If you mean it's impractical to load up on rye bread throughout the morning, and into mid-afternoon, then I disagree. When I first became diabetic 30 years ago, I soon returned to work as a motorcycle messenger in London; and there would be nothing impractical about maintaining the diet I now maintain whilst doing such work.</p><p></p><p>If however, by 'impractical', you meant to refer to losing hypo awareness, then I know - at least in my own case - that you're wrong.</p><p></p><p>I've just been reading a thread called something like "Low Blood Sugar without symptoms - anyone else experienced this?", started by 'diamondnostril' (I think the label was). And every single day I quite commonly have low blood-sugar readings, but I don't crash to the floor like I used to: I always get time to react.</p><p></p><p>If I didn't load up each day with rye bread, then it would be different. But I now know that by steadily eating the stuff, I get effective hypo prevention.</p><p></p><p>I'm certainly not immune from getting hypos. But I get nothing like the hypos that I used to get.</p><p></p><p>So I have to disagree profoundly with the second finding you mention of the DCCT trial you refer to - even though I don't know what DCCT stands for. As for the first finding you mention, I'm not sure. But since I maintain perfect hypo-free health (touch wood) as things stand, I see no reason to start letting my blood-sugar go higher than I feel I need to.</p><p></p><p>I would also add something I believe to be particularly important. There are plenty of diabetic experts who fail to distinguish between blood-sugar readings below 4mmol/l and actual hypos. And unsurprisingly, therefore, there are plenty of users on this forum who similarly fail to make such a distinction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="michaeldavid, post: 404146, member: 57211"] Hi Sam, I'm unclear about what you mean by 'impractical'. If you mean it's impractical to load up on rye bread throughout the morning, and into mid-afternoon, then I disagree. When I first became diabetic 30 years ago, I soon returned to work as a motorcycle messenger in London; and there would be nothing impractical about maintaining the diet I now maintain whilst doing such work. If however, by 'impractical', you meant to refer to losing hypo awareness, then I know - at least in my own case - that you're wrong. I've just been reading a thread called something like "Low Blood Sugar without symptoms - anyone else experienced this?", started by 'diamondnostril' (I think the label was). And every single day I quite commonly have low blood-sugar readings, but I don't crash to the floor like I used to: I always get time to react. If I didn't load up each day with rye bread, then it would be different. But I now know that by steadily eating the stuff, I get effective hypo prevention. I'm certainly not immune from getting hypos. But I get nothing like the hypos that I used to get. So I have to disagree profoundly with the second finding you mention of the DCCT trial you refer to - even though I don't know what DCCT stands for. As for the first finding you mention, I'm not sure. But since I maintain perfect hypo-free health (touch wood) as things stand, I see no reason to start letting my blood-sugar go higher than I feel I need to. I would also add something I believe to be particularly important. There are plenty of diabetic experts who fail to distinguish between blood-sugar readings below 4mmol/l and actual hypos. And unsurprisingly, therefore, there are plenty of users on this forum who similarly fail to make such a distinction. [/QUOTE]
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